Poll: Clinton gets slight convention boost of her own
Shores up Democratic support after Trump's boost last week, retakes narrow lead in Battleground states
Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News' executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates outcomes on election nights. Salvanto appears regularly across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms to explain and analyze CBS News polls, U.S. public opinion, voting and elections.
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Through the CBS News Battleground Tracker, he and the Election and Survey Unit have presented viewers with comprehensive coverage of contests across all key states and districts through large-scale surveys and data models. He has identified and shown viewers potential scenarios in presidential and congressional elections, and the key influencer groups that go beyond the typical demographic breakdowns. On election nights, Anthony presents the real-time results by taking viewers directly inside the process at the CBS News Data Desk, for unique, up-to-the-minute looks at how the Desk is analyzing the results.
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Shores up Democratic support after Trump's boost last week, retakes narrow lead in Battleground states
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